The Breakthrough Coalition
CANO has convened a coalition of arts and non-arts interests to unite in a campaign to press for annual dedicated funding for the arts, no overnight task, so a short term program to provide marketing opportunities through new media is in development. CANO also provides CANOpeners to bring cultural, business and community leaders together to learn about and work with each other.
The Creative Industries Breakthrough Coalition
Please join the Creative Industries Breakthrough Coalition in helping to develop a plan that will guarantee greater support and investment in the creative industries and our creative artists and producers. Please read the following introduction describing the planning project and take the survey below. Getting input and as broad of a spectrum of community engagement as possible is imperative to the success of our mission.
Who are we and what are we trying to accomplish?
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Marketing Support
CANO has developed curricula and a data base to help New Orleans students better understand the career opportunities in creative disciplines. We hope this better understanding will encourage students to focus their studies and performance to help them gain entry to post secondary educational programs that will enhance their creative careers. We recognize the limited knowledge of this opportunities by teachers, counselors and parents and hope our courses will address that gap, and stimulate dialogue between students and their mentors that will open pathways to this growing industry sector, and enrich the unique cultural landscape of a city where the past is not past, but the future is also in play as artists of all disciplines look to build on our 300 year cultural history.
We are presently working to form alliances with organizations that have greater educational expertise and can help us replicate the program throughout our public and private educational systems.
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Prospect New Orleans Local Art Sites Advertising Campaign
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Holiday Giving Advertising Campaign
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CANOpeners
CANO also hosts quarterly networking meetings called CANOpeners. The goal of this program is to provide opportunities for individual artists to make alliances between the cultural, civic and business communities. CANOpeners are held in a different neighborhood each time and in conjunction with a different partner. This program is key to CANO’s overall mission to promote the cultural economy through deepening ties between sectors to build sustainability for individual artists and their endeavors. We also hope to increase the presence of creative artists and producers in policy making arenas.
Advocacy News
Jeanne Nathan and Kurt Weigle are, in many ways, very different people, but they are united in their mission to see the culture of New Orleans promoted and celebrated as an official part of the city’s brand.
